I've been messing around today after watching a bunch of Benibachi videos. What I noticed about all their tanks is that they have spraybars constantly dropping water from the top in order to get as much oxygen into the tank as possible. I then noticed that I pretty much had no air bubbles floating around so decided to tinker. Here is my latest contraption for the time being while I see how well it works.

So I took my outflow lily pipe out and replaced it with the eheim spray bar that they give you with the filter. I cut it into a smaller piece as it was as long as the tank. The finnex light came in handy since it's holding the pipe in place....the spray bar sits very sturdy and has no chance of falling. It's creating a nice bubble waterfall effect. It's actually injecting a ton of bubbles with not much flow at all so it's not like it's disturbing the whole substrate. It's also very silent so there isn't a Niagara Falls noise going on in my living room.

Spraybar cannot fall in any direction. Can't go up since it's held by the light, can't go to the side nor can it fall down into the water.

I added a small partition made out of straws so the top floating plants are not getting pushed down by the spraybar. It also keeps the plants in one spot which is very good as I can never grow floaters if there is too much flow.

I have the same light and some frogbit I got off the SnS. I've got almost zero surface disturbance, but the frogbit is not doing well. It's going all yellow and turning to sludge. I'm trying to come up with another idea for a floater (NOT DUCKWEED!) if the frogbit doesn't recover.

I have the same light and some frogbit I got off the SnS. I've got almost zero surface disturbance, but the frogbit is not doing well. It's going all yellow and turning to sludge. I'm trying to come up with another idea for a floater (NOT DUCKWEED!) if the frogbit doesn't recover.

As others have said, you might be deficient in nutrients which is why your frog bit is not faring so well. I usually have issues when I do not provide enough light. Why not try various floating plants and see which ones thrive in your conditions? In my experience, giant duckweed and salvinia minima (sp) does the best in my conditions. For example, I cannot grow Red Root Floaters if my life depended on it...not sure why but it just does not grow in my tanks.

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Originally Posted by nycfish

Nice little mod. Does the crypt you place below displace the flow ? Just wondering if its strong and if your substrate gets kicked up from the spray

The flow is actually not fast at all but it creates a ton of bubbles. None of the substrate gets displaced. The crypt doesn't even move all that much. Honestly, I am not sure how much I like this mod since the tank is filled with bubbles all over and looks like soda water.

Here is a pic from a few mins ago....you can see that the bubbles are all over.

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